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How does this make you feel? Anything you do on the internets tubes is fair game to Bush and his hyenas.

So, if you have funny ideas about sex, cheat on your spouse or whatever, ya sure better not email about it. Ya never know what the perverts reading your missives might do with the info.

The legal justification? Federal law says that snoopers must "minimize the interception of communications not otherwise subject to interception," which means that even if you have a warrant to bug a criminal suspect, you must take pains not to eavesdrop on innocent people. There is, however, an exemption for intercepted communications "in a code or foreign language" -- and one DoJ functionary, quoted in the story below, claims that since all digital communications amount to a foreign language or code, it should be perfectly obvious that "federal agents are legally permitted to record everything and sort through it later":

Its Alice Through the Looking Glass time, folks. If we needed paintings of this fucking administration we'd have to commission Salvador Dali.


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